UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4515

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4515

    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4515

    Published: 4 Nov 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-4515
    Aliases:
    USN-2785-1

    Summary:

    Details: Mozilla Firefox before 42.0, when NTLM v1 is enabled for HTTP authentication, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive hostname information by constructing a crafted web site that sends an NTLM request and reads the Workstation field of an NTLM type 3 message.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4515, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-117/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2785-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4515

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High